[osol-code] Re: [ksh93-integration-discuss] Trouble with"ERROR:ctfconvert:pics/wordexp.o: Couldn't parse stab "#vla0:(0, 14)" (sourcefile pics/wordexp.o)" ...

[Garrett D'Amore]

Peter Memishian wrote:
>  > In general |alloca()| should be avoided in portable code and for
>  > perforamce reasons since some platforms implement |alloca()| via
>  > |malloc()|
>
> What platform does that?
>
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Certainly not Solaris.  Maybe some platform might choose to do it this
way if the compiler lacks a suitable builtin.  I'm not aware of any
platform for which that is true.  (malloc() would be particularly bad,
as well, since one of the things alloca() gives is automatic
destruction.   Lacking compiler support, I'm not sure how you'd do that
with malloc().)

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General Dynamics C4 Systems
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